History

On April 4, 1975, a plane carrying more than 200 Vietnamese orphans crashed. More than 130 people were killed in the crash, including 78 children.

Americans venerate disabled veterans in part because of our lack of collective sacrifice.

The Leesburg Stockade Girls, who ranged in age from 12 to 15, were jailed for nearly two months without being charged with a crime. The young civil rights demonstrators missed Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream Speech' on Aug. 28, 1963.

Greek life is important at schools like the University of Alabama. But another tradition exists, too.

Group fitness has long mirrored our needs and desires.

As commander of the Continental Army, Washington ordered his troops to be inoculated against smallpox during the Revolutionary War. Now the Pentagon is making the same demand: active-duty troops must be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

A thirst for war shut down debate. It proved costly.

Questions about a celebrity’s religious conversion are nothing new.

Though they have long been suspected to have been from the Nazis' nuclear program, the pedigree of these cubes has not been confirmed.

The U.S. has always put its own interest first.

Finally embracing teachers' original vision could help us rethink education after covid.

The U.S. push to help Afghan women fight the Taliban's oppression actually predates 9/11.

LDS leaders stoked a far-right culture for decades. Now it might undermine their authority.

Both Crystal Lee Sutton and Amanda Knox fought Hollywood over the right to tell their stories.

The United States has long tried to get other countries to take in refugees to avoid domestic political fights.